Joseph is a terribly uncommon first name.

Perez is a terribly uncommon last name.

This is a tragedy.

 

There is an olive mill a few miles from me. You can sample any of the oils. I sampled allofthem today.

including this amazing concoction

 

Yeah, José Perez is pretty much the equivalent of John Smith in the Latin world. There are a lot of us.

Wondering how many people grew up watching this as a kid:





He got the ball in #6.





And grabbed the bike and ran out of the studio with it.

 

click to play

 

Also, Turkish engineers with too much time on their hands:


Hakan, is there something you have been keeping from us?

 

Speaking of buckets and clowns..

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I neither would touch a BMW or a transformer thingie with a

 

I find it difficult to take seriously a man who has such immense financial resources at his disposal, and who lives in the Greatest City on Earth, yet requires that his private aircraft be catered by KFC.

That having been said, I think we can all agree, regardless of our political leanings, that Donald Sutherland is Donald Sutherland.





I'm curious- does the phrase "three meter pole" exist with the same cultural significance in metric nations, has the SAE / American phrasing dominated, or is the concept or not touching things with long poles simply not recognized?

 

And with the salt shaker in recent use... yyukkk

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.
I put salt on my cigarettes.

 

Oh I love salt to an unhealthy degree, but have you ever had KFC?

 

[QUOTE=hi_im_sean;1363237]Oh I love salt to an unhealthy degree, but have you ever had KFC?[/QUOTE

Funny thing, I just had KFC last night, first time in over 10 - 12 years.
One might think there is not that much to a piece of fried chicken, but Turks just have a way of ruining it regardless.
Soggy lumps of tasteless dry stuff, served with ketchup and mayo only.

A really sorry excuse to kill an innocent chicken.

 

One may take your statement of "soggy and dry" to be a contradictory and non-sensible statement. But I have sampled this conundrum, and it is terrible, and not sure how its possible. Almost like a hostess snowball.

 

Pretty simple:
Soggy on the outside, dry inside.

 

I find this interesting.

My time in Germany and The Netherlands made a believer out of me with regard to the serving of mayonnaise with chips. I couldn't help but be taken back to that famous dialogue between Jules and Vincent in the car.

And likewise with ketchup, but specifically with curry ketchup. It's a flavor combination which we simply don't have here in the Americas, and one that I utterly fell in love with.


But the thing that really blew my mind was when I found "American Frietssaus" on sale at supermarkets.



Now, I get that the Germanic nations seem to have a fetish for American popular culture, and I kind of enjoy it when I'm there. But American-style frietsass? Nothing like that exists here, and we are a poorer culture for it. If such a thing were known of here, heck, World War 1 would never have happened in the first place. US President Wilson would have basically said "**** YOU, KING PETER I OF SERBIA, HOW DARE YOU JEOPARDIZE THE SUPPLY OF FRITESSAUS TO OUR COUNTRY? I WILL LITERALLY BOMB YOUR ENTIRE NATION INTO ASH, AND THEN TRACE VULGAR PICTURES INTO THE ASHES WITH MY DICK!"

And that would have been that. No Great Depression, no **** empire, no cold war, no 21'st century Jihad.



Because you don't **** with a man's frietssaus.

 

Yes, apparently the fact that Turkish Transformers tend to be rather flatulent. (1:43)

 

To be clear, it was not merely the name Joseph Perez, but the combination of a public figure named Joseph Perez in the Chicago area, that raised my eyebrow.

Also, sharing a full name with someone else is something with which I have literally no experience at all, so the idea is somewhat more interesting to me than it would be to our John Smith.

 

Lol

 

While at Best Buy getting a headunit installed in my new-to-me Ram, something I've never let someone else do, I noticed this ironic sign which made me happier than it should have.

Side note, Pioneer AVIC-4200NEX to have Google maps and other apps in dash is pretty sweet.

 

I was going to post a picture of me parking in the electric charge recharging spots at Trader Joes, but i was carrying groceries and didn't feel like taking a picture that badly.